
Geopolitical Storm Brewing from Palestine to Ukraine
- 01 December 2023In this week’s episode of the New Rules podcast, host Dimitri Simes Jr. speaks with veteran geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar about why the Global American Empire needs war in Gaza to maintain its...

‘The Horror! The Horror!’, Revisited in Palestine
- 01 December 2023“Mistah Kurtz – he dead.” Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad once said that before he had been to the Congo he was a simple animal. It was in one of those lands partially mapped out by...

The Hidden Reasons Behind the War on Gaza (Part I)
- 01 December 2023Either the Resistance Axis and the Global South decolonize the Middle East, or "Israel" and the US will continue occupying the region, choking off the New Silk Road, plundering Syria's oil, and...

The Eviction Notice Is Being Written, and Will Come in Four Languages
- 01 December 2023The Eviction Notice is being written. And it will come in four languages. Russian. Farsi. Mandarin. And last but not least, English.

On the Perpetration of Mass-Death Events
- 01 December 2023The holocaust now visited on Palestine by US/Israel is unique in many ways. Rates of killing and maiming exceed those of previous Israeli assaults on Gaza, the perpetrators announce their genocidal...

The Hierarchy Of Violence
- 01 December 2023Somehow, beheading 40 babies is considered a moral atrocity, while bombing 5,000+ is OK. This is especially galling because the ‘40 beheaded babies’ story is a lie while 5,000+ Palestinian babies...

Global Apartheid: How the Colonial West Continues to Betray the Rest of the World
- 01 December 2023Nothing is more telling of the Western world’s attitude towards developing nations than the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Middle East. We in the Global South aren’t the only ones aghast at...

The Green Scam: How Electric Vehicles Harm the Environment That They’re Supposed to Save
- 01 December 2023Five Indian cities, including the capital, New Delhi, consistently rank in the world's top ten worst air-polluted cities. Vehicular emissions are significant contributors; Delhi alone has around...

U.S.-China Reset? Biden Offers Hand of Friendship to Xi While Holding Enmity in the Other
- 01 December 2023Despite the hype in the U.S. media about their much-anticipated summit in California this week marking a putative return to normal bilateral relations, the Biden administration continues pushing...

Science Update from Hansen et al.: "The Goal of the Paris Agreement is Dead"
- 25 November 2023An open-access paper prepared by James Hansen and six other scholars is titled How We Know that Global Warming is Accelerating and that the Goal of the Paris Agreement is Dead . The paper is dated...

Keeping the Lifeboat Afloat for Another Year
- 20 November 2023As we move into Giving Tuesday and the holidays, please consider a year-end donation. Your funds sustain TitanicLifeboatAcademy.org and keep it a secure website. For our part, we will continue...

Socialist Party of Zambia President Dr. Fred M’membe Arrested on Espionage Charges
- 20 November 2023On November 15, the president of the Socialist Party (SP) of Zambia, Dr. Fred M’membe, was arrested on charges of espionage. The veteran journalist and political leader had been summoned at the Ibex...

Ukraine Proxy War & Gaza Genocide Fatally Expose Western Hypocrisy and Moral Bankruptcy
- 14 November 2023Western leaders and institutions have brought themselves into unprecedented disrepute over their complicity in the genocide against the Palestinian people. This is all the more amplified by the NATO...

Letter to the Children of Gaza
- 11 November 2023Dear child. It is past midnight. I am flying at hundreds of miles an hour in the darkness, thousands of feet over the Atlantic Ocean. I am traveling to Egypt. I will go to the border of Gaza at...

Chris Hedges: Israel’s Final Solution for the Palestinians
- 11 November 2023I covered the birth of Jewish fascism in Israel. I reported on the extremist Meir Kahane , who was barred from running for office and whose Kach Party was outlawed in 1994 and declared a terrorist...

The Moral Complexities Of Bombing A Concentration Camp Full Of Children
- 10 November 2023They’re dropping bombs on a concentration camp full of children. THEY’RE DROPPING BOMBS ON A CONCENTRATION CAMP FULL OF CHILDREN. Not in the past. Right now. They’re still doing it. They show no...

The U.S. Is Against Hamas in Gaza, but Supports Terrorists in Syria
- 10 November 2023On October 7, Israel was attacked by Hamas , an armed Palestinian resistance group inside Gaza. The group killed 1,405 people, and kidnapped over 200 in Israel. Hamas was a branch of the Muslim...

The War in the Gaza Enclave - What’s Next?
- 10 November 2023Whatever your opinion about Israel’s war in Gaza, when the dust finally settles on the battlefields, the world will no longer be the same—unipolar. The deadly Hamas strike on southern Israel on...

The Gaza Genocide Continues
- 08 November 2023Mainstream media and official government commentary on the violence in Gaza appears to have acquired a certain rhythm to make sure that everyone understands that it is the poor Israelis who are the...

War Looks Just as War Looks: Dismal and Ugly
- 08 November 2023It is impossible to look away from what the Israeli government is doing to Palestinians not only in Gaza, but also in the West Bank. Waves of Israeli aircraft pummel Gaza, destroying communications...

Israel in BIG TROUBLE as Gaza War Inflames Regional Tensions
- 05 November 2023Friend of the show and former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter reflects on Israel's war on Gaza and whether regional forces such as Hezbollah will enter into the conflict in a major way.

The Collapse of International Law
- 03 November 2023International law has essentially collapsed with the US backed Israeli siege of the Palestinian people of Gaza, in response to the Hamas attack on Israeli occupation forces on October 7.

The Roots of Radicalism and the Structure of Evil
- 30 October 2023My title is redundant for a reason, since the root of the word radical is the Latin word, radix , meaning root. For I mean to show how the use and misuse of language, its history or etymology, and...

Both Hamas and Israel Could Have Reasons to Hide the Truth About the Deadly Hospital Blast in Gaza
- 22 October 2023The fog of war is an ever-present reality, defined by factual uncertainty brought on by the imperfect recollections of people subjected to stresses that are unthinkable in everyday life. It is not...

Unrelenting Drought Clobbers the Amazon
- 22 October 2023Global warming is consuming vast portions of the planet with a swagger that defies all expectations. Rivers in the Amazon rainforest are drying up. This is not supposed to be happening to such an...

Israel’s Culture of Deceit
- 20 October 2023Washington DC — ( Scheerpost ) — Israel was founded on lies. The lie that Palestinian land was largely unoccupied. The lie that 750,000 Palestinians fled their homes and villages during their ethnic...

Historical Overview of Philosophy and Conservation Biology
- 20 October 2023Asking almost any contemporary scientist with a Ph.D. (i.e., a Doctor of Philosophy) about philosophy typically draws a blank stare or, occasionally, an inquisitive gaze. Philosophy rarely is taught...

Slouching Towards the Final Solution
- 15 October 2023You have stolen the orchards of my ancestors And the land that I cultivated And you left nothing for us Except for these rocks… If I become hungry The usurper’s flesh will be my food. – Palestinian...

EU Asks Musk to Censor Info Not Conforming to Western Narrative Over Israel’s War in Gaza
- 11 October 2023The European Union is asking Elon Musk to censor information not conforming to the Western narrative over Israel’s war of aggression against Palestinians in Gaza. The EU called on Musk, the...

Comes the Dancing Skeleton
- 08 October 2023“We’ve conflated politics and bad mental health until they are indistinguishable.” — Scott Adams By some hidden working of unseen forces, legions of ghouls and demons are bursting out of the ground...